Place In the Sun: What If Italy Joined the Central Powers? (1.0)
- Thread starter Kaiser Wilhelm the Tenth
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It still cracks me up thinking what the OTL Entente leaders at Versailles would think seeing this timeline. Orlando, in particular...
...it's so bright and cheery in CP Italy. Meanwhile, in Entente Italy, all is gloom and frowns.
Isn’t that a good thing? I mean
Not to spoil things too much, but in a couple weeks we'll be hearing from our old friend Alexei Brusilov. As I make decisions "in his shoes", as it were (planning TTL military campaigns with him at the head), do you have any recommendations as to how I should portray him? Anything more interesting you believe he could plausibly do in this world than just copypasting our world's Brusilov Offensive?
Ideas are not only welcome but actively solicited...
-Kaiser Wilhelm the Tenth
Ideas are not only welcome but actively solicited...
-Kaiser Wilhelm the Tenth
Perhaps, Be one of the first people to actually use Armor effectively? Not tanks (I doubt the Russians would of developed them yet) but armored cars and the like, to punch through whoever is in his way. If this is dumb, someone please come in and tell me.
don't forget how they also claim Dalmatia. the Italian irredentists were some clay hungry people
I don't understand, Russian Revolution already happened, the liberals won, and Russia became a parliamentary state, on what grounds the Revolution succeed this time? Russia by all means should have continured on the road of constitutional monarchy from here on.
While Russia's now a constitutional monarchy, it still is a pretty poor place to be a workingman in. This revolution is happening from below, not above.
Basically it's like your a starving peasant who has dreamt of gigantic steak all your life, gravy and potatoes instead of stale bread, suddenly your life changes and the promised food arrives! It's...fresh bread but filled with sawdust, the despair nearly breaks you and damn it, you would rather strive for a stomach that does not hurt you every night bed of hunger pains than live like this no matter if your boss says better food will come in years, you want it to taste real meat now rather than this hollow excuse of life.
The reformists rule is in some ways worse than the Empire because the people who meant to represent the majority compromised so much and combined with what they lost in WW1, Russia is rather than almost everything belongs to the royalty belongs to aristocrats.
So people want communism and it's promises of better life than say 2% improvement in addition to the negatives of the loss of the Ukrainian breadbasket, Poland and Finland it's resources.
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^^^
This is perfect. Can't add anything (except that communism never works, but people don't know that in TTL 1919)
I still think that this revolution is a bit forced. But, hey, it's your story.
and neither does capitalism, but they don't know that either
edit: oh and on that winning democratic nominee for 1920 - i suggest Thomas R Marshall (if only because the man was huge opponent of eugenics)
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maybe hold your judgement until you read the actual story?
unless you have future telling capabilities
We'll have to see how it all turns out-- a new update tomorrow will throw a curveball into things.
It worked for the state but not for them...and neither does capitalism, but they don't know that either
As I say, time will tell..... Predictions, speculation, criticism, etc are always welcome round these parts...maybe hold your judgement until you read the actual story?
unless you have future telling capabilities
They did. February 1917 saw the Provisional Government replace the Tsar... it lasted all of eight months.
They did, though I've heard the communists could of taken power if not then soon after but Lenin and co where unable to fully seize the opportunity shocked.
Russia during the years of 1917-1920 was extremely complicated, Ukraine for example the Ukrainian People's Republic become a brief thing then a civil war in Ukraine and the larger Russian civil war and Germany dissolved it.